Today, Pop and Politics gives some air time to Right Wing Activism and its causes.

 

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by Gary Moskowitz, Jessica Jones, Brad WagnerWhen people of color joke about or comment on stereotypes of their community, is that spoofing racism or helping perpetuate it?

 

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A man coerced into confessing to murder in 1996 will be freed after DNA tests found the blood of another convicted murderer in prison.
“Mr. Warney appears poised to join a roster of people who confessed to crimes they had not committed, a phenomenon whose size has been one of the startling revelations of the [...]

Winston McCuen thinks black people are savages. He even admits that slavery was a good thing.
To McCuen, black people deserved this sort of taming because they are from the jungles and, as a whole, obviously genetically inferior.
“Intellectually, yes they are,” said McCuen to a local news station. “This has been confirmed over and over, [...]

George W. Bush is planning to send thousands of U.S. troops to the U.S.-Mexico border,
THIS ARTICLE reported.
Some argue that we are stretching our military way too thin. And how will this affect our relationship with the Mexican government?
In related news, one woman suggests using DNA to control immigration into the U.S. with [...]

Roughly 48,000 high school seniors might not graduate in 2006, because they didn’t pass the California High School Exit Exam.
However, a group of advocates is suing the state of California over the issue, claiming schools have not adequately prepared those students and they should be allowed to graduate.
THIS argument claims that the education [...]

I know this isn’t the most important thing to blog about but there’s an internet translator that changes the genders of (most of) the names on any web page. I tried it on the PopandPolitics site and got a good laugh at seeing my colleagues Gary and Jamaal change to Gail and Jamie. [...]

Ever read the labels on the food you buy? You should. Most of those tasty fruit juices, sodas, jams, ketchups, and a lot of frozen foods and so-called health foods are injected with high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener derived from corn.

 

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Let me see if I can do this… It hurts me to even attempt to type this horrific movie like tragedy. I don’t know if you guys heard, but today a German man was convicted and sentence to life in prison for cannibalism.
The courts reverse an earlier much more lenient decision of manslaughter of [...]

Ok, so we’ve all seen the news reports of how teen author Kaavya Viswanathan got busted for plagerism… but check out this great take on her situation:
Click here for the article
-Jean Chen

Take a look at this Laptop article HERE
Laptops in classrooms, hmm? They should be banned from all college classrooms, period. I agree with the professors, all they do is distract other students and there use is only for going on the web to search the net and instant messaging Suzy to come over [...]

According to this New York Times article, many black people are feeling a bit uneasy about immigration.
“But despite some sympathy for the nation’s illegal immigrants, many black professionals, academics and blue-collar workers feel increasingly uneasy as they watch Hispanics flex their political muscle while assuming the mantle of a seminal black struggle for justice.”
Some of [...]

I really really hope this isn’t true. There’s an account on Playahata.com about a writers’ friend who is in Iraq. Basically, there are American soldiers who feel like they can rape and pillage just for the hell of it:
Click here for the account.
When will this war end?
- Jean Chen